Today’s authors must sell their work -- and themselves. The publisher’s promotional budget wouldn’t cover bus fare to the book party for “Shining City.†What to do? Try a hot tub, high-priced escorts and a pimp.
The story of the author’s father, a Vietnamese landowner, and his struggle to survive 35 years of strife in Vietnam, from the Japanese occupation to the fall of Saigon.
A man returns to the scene of historical atrocities -- was he a victim or a participant? -- in a novella published as part of Melville House’s series, “The Contemporary Art of the Novella.â€
